Australia's CTO Sharyn Clarkson says the new design was inspired by the look, feel, and upgrade processes used by the United Kingdom and New Zealand. Research was also conducted to inform the process and suggested:

The home page should offer a broad range of topics, but not overwhelm with mass hyperlinks Keywords under topic headings increase user confidence about which path to take Not everyone understands how government works; we need to write in plain English Information placed on the right-hand side of a web page is often ignored

Drupal is AGCTO's weapon of choice for content management, as was flagged back in May.

Clarkson says “Our Beta site will be open to public comment” and the her office will “be asking you to tell us what you think.”

“Your suggestions will help us build what we hope will be a truly great user-experience.” ®